While the United States leads the world in advanced medical technology and services, escalating spending on health care is taking a toll on employers. The burden of footing this bill is making U.S. manufacturers less competitive and provides a considerable incentive for moving manufacturing jobs to low-cost labor markets. Since this is an election year, it would be wise for everyone to see where the three remaining presidential candidates stand on healthcare.
Although nonsynchronous systems are slower than synchronous systems in terms of assemblies per minute, they are more efficient than cam-driven systems. Photo courtesy Merritech Contrary to the claims of promotional
The sealing surfaces on a transmission manifold must be free of defects that would allow pressurized hydraulic fluid to leak. A machine vision system readily finds such defects at production
Over the past year, the engineers at Vacuum Instrument Corp. have designed numerous leak testing systems for assemblers of all sorts of products. Here are three from the automotive industry.
With so much negative news lately about low-cost manufacturing in China, here’s a bit of good news: Mass production of the XO laptop computer-the so-called $100 laptop designed by One Laptop Per Child (OLPC, Cambridge, MA)-began last month at Quanta Computer Inc.’s factory in Changshu, China.
Today's automated assembly systems move so fast that when something goes wrong, the cause of the problem is invisible to the unaided eye. Learn how high-speed digital video can help.
